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percentage for wastage, we may say that 

 twenty-five by twenty-five feet is a generous 

 unit per person, as the basis for estimating 

 the amount of land it will be necessary to cul- 

 tivate and give over to vegetables in maintain- 

 ing a kitchen garden consistent with the de- 

 mands of any given household. If potatoes are 

 to be included in the list of vegetables grown, 

 it is of course proper to grow them all together 

 (in rows running the longest way of their sec- 

 tion for convenience in tillage) on a separate 

 allotment of two hundred square feet or a plot 

 ten by twenty feet in size, for each individual. 



In the preparation of the ground for the 

 kitchen garden the advantage of using only the 

 smallest area consistent with the needs of a 

 household begins to be apparent. For both 

 labor and fertilizers are concentrated, and the 

 ground benefits accordingly — as well as the gar- 

 dener. It is from every side therefore the part 

 of wisdom to reduce the problem to its lowest 

 common denominator; and to locate the space 

 which is to be devoted to this extremely inter- 

 esting and worth-while project where every ac- 

 tivity connected with it will be best and most 

 conveniently served. Wherefore it appears that, 

 in the beginning, one must consider every end; 

 and, as I have earlier and repeatedly pointed 



